Drink-driver crashed into taxi after picking up pregnant girfriend from Cambridge station

A drink-driver who collected his pregnant girlfriend from Cambridge railway station before crashing into the back of a taxi has been banned from driving.

Lukasz Zborowski, who said he had drunk a litre and a half of cider, drove off following the collision in Station Road on July 20.

He was banned from driving for two years for drink-driving and fined a total of £495 for driving without insurance and not having an MOT certificate.

The 31-year-old must also do 100 hours of unpaid work in the community and pay £145 costs.

When breathalysed he was found to have 91 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath.

Claire Hancock, prosecuting, said: “The defendant was driving his Rover vehicle. It seems that he collected his pregnant girlfriend from the railway station.

“He was driving along Station Road and it was then that he drove into the back of a stationary taxi, which had two passengers.”

She said he drove off before he was caught by the taxi driver at the traffic lights.

Zborowski, of, Hurrells Row, Harston, who admitted the charges, told city magistrates he will never do it again.

He said: “There was no damage to the taxi, I have seen this, and I decided to drive off because I knew the consequences. I was totally stupid by doing this.”

Dr Stephen Baxter, sentencing at Cambridge Magistrates’ Court, said: “There are a number of aggravating features - you were involved in a road traffic collision, there were other people involved and you made off.”